Are you interested in becoming a British Guardianship host family?
Got a question? We've got answers! British Guardianship offer an array of Frequently Asked Questions (and Answers) in response to enquiries on policies and host family programmes with us.
An Educational Guardian is a designated person who acts in loco parentis and has overarching pastoral and academic responsibility for the safeguarding, care and welfare of the student while he or she attends school or college in the United Kingdom.
Families that are approved and appointed, following a rigorous safer recruitment process, undertaken by our organisation, to provide accommodation for, and care of a student, generally for a period of one to seven days at weekends, exeats, half-terms or the beginning or end of a term.
The majority of British Guardianship students are full time boarders at independent schools and need host family accommodation during fixed EXEAT weekends, half-term holidays or for emergency stays such due to illness or suspension.
We could accept your certificate as a supporting document; however, we need to apply for our own Enhanced DBS with barried list check for all our host family members who are above 16 upon the receipt of their written approval. Any members of the family who are signed up to the DBS update service can provide their details and we will use these to make the necessary checks with your written approval.
Normally the school or British Guardianship will arrange for the student to arrive to you by taxi. In exceptional circumstances, if we are unable to arrange the transfer, we may ask you to help us with the transportation, in such circumstances all of your costs would be covered.
The answer is unfortunately not. We kindly ask all our host families to be home full time for the duration when our students are being accommodated by them.
The full information about payment rates and payment methods could be found in our host family handbook which we provide you with at the time of a successful application.
We have students from the age of 8 and above. The rules for our over 18 students are slightly different which will be fully explained to you at the time of placing the student with you.
The answer is no, as British Guardianship will remain the student’s educational guardian at all times and even while they are being accommodated by you as their host family.
We kindly ask all our host families to not provide our students with any money / pocket money unless authorised by the student’s educational guardian.
Unfortunately not. Though we do try to place students with host families regularly, there are times when we don’t have any students in your area who require a host family. You will still be on our records as available to host, and if we receive a host family request from a student in your area, we will ask for your availability to host our student accordingly.
We have students from all over the world and we cannot specifically name any nationalities.
More questions?
If you have more questions or you didn't find your question here, please feel free to contact us with any enquiries about becoming a host family.
